"live albums. The band was formed in 1998, originally called The Elements. After discovering that another band had the same name, the members changed the name to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, after Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film ""The Wild One"". Bassist Robert Levon Been and guitarist Peter Hayes met at high school in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Lafayette and formed a band, Hayes having recently left The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Been has said in interviews that Hayes had a turbulent home life and would park and sleep in his car outside the Been household."
"Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1950s, and in Sydney from 1970. These clubs, like the clubs of motorcycle culture in general, reflected a disaffection with the mainstream culture of post-World War II America, a disaffection whose notoriety — and therefore appeal — expanded after the sensationalized news coverage of the Hollister ""riot"" of 1947. The 1953 film ""The Wild One"", starring Marlon Brando wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a leather jacket, and Muir cap, played on pop-cultural fascination with the Hollister ""riot"" and promoted an image of masculine independence that resonated with some men who were dissatisfied with mainstream culture. Also,"
"stereotype). Reflecting this were films such as the melodramas by director Douglas Sirk; ""All That Heaven Allows"" (1955), ""There's Always Tomorrow"" (1956), ""Written on the Wind"" (1956) and ""Imitation of Life"" (1959). Decades later, the themes of these films would be revisited with films such as ""Far From Heaven"" (2002) and ""The Hours"" (2002). Teen films came into their own during the decade, beginning with ""The Wild One"", starring Marlon Brando as an outlaw biker. MGM's ""Blackboard Jungle"" (1955) examined race and class dynamics in an inner-city high school, and is regarded by some as the spark that lit the"
"little effect on the town itself. The nationwide fear of motorcyclists did not result in many changes in Hollister. Bikers were welcomed back and rallies continued to be held in the years after the riot. In fact, the town held a 1997 50th anniversary rally to commemorate the event. A short story, ""Cyclists' Raid"" by Frank Rooney, is based on the events of the Hollister riot and was originally published in the January 1951 issue of ""Harper's Magazine"". This story made up the basis of the plot of the 1953 film ""The Wild One"", starring Marlon Brando. However it bears"
"and innocent man, Amadou Diallo, by the NYPD. On May 11, 2001, group member Marlon Bryant Brando was killed after being struck by a car in North Bronx at the age of 22. It is reported that the driver of the car was intoxicated and swerving onto the sidewalk.Marlon Bryant is believed to have saved a bystanding child's life by pushing him out of the way. In 2013 King Kirk released his new Sporty Thievz compilation album mixtape called ""Cinema, Beats & Brawdz"". In 2014 Sporty Thievz released their official follow up to their first album ""Street Cinema part 2""."
"Boozefighters The Boozefighters Motorcycle Club (BFMC) is a motorcycle club, formed in California just after World War II. Today, the BFMC has chapters across America with its national headquarters located in Fort Worth, Texas. The first European chapter was founded in the Azores Islands around 1990. Other international chapters include Canada, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. The Boozefighters MC first gained notoriety at the Hollister riot in Hollister, California the weekend of July 3–6, 1947, later portrayed in the 1953 film ""The Wild One"" starring Marlon Brando. Due to the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club and other well"
"drove motorcycles, sported ducktail haircuts (which were widely banned in schools) and displayed a general disregard for the law and authority. The greaser phenomenon was kicked off by the controversial youth-oriented movies ""The Wild One"" (1953) starring Marlon Brando and ""Rebel Without A Cause"" (1955) starring James Dean. The American economy grew dramatically in the post-war period, expanding at a rate of 3.5% per annum between 1945 and 1970. During this period of prosperity, many incomes doubled in a generation, described by economist Frank Levy as ""upward mobility on a rocket ship."" The substantial increase in average family income within"
"Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in ""On the Waterfront"" (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in ""The Godfather"" (1972). Brando was an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. He is credited with helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s. He initially gained acclaim and an"
"with an enduring popularity. His rise to national attention in the 1950s had a profound effect on American culture. According to film critic Pauline Kael, ""Brando represented a reaction against the post-war mania for security. As a protagonist, the Brando of the early fifties had no code, only his instincts. He was a development from the gangster leader and the outlaw. He was antisocial because he knew society was crap; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still"
"Playboy on an undercover agent named Dan Black. 2003 film ""Biker Boyz"", starring Laurence Fishburne and Djimon Hounsou, depicts illegal bike racing gangs, although neither are criminals. 2004 film ""Torque"", which features Adam Scott, Martin Henderson and Ice Cube, is about a biker who is faced by a rival gang leader for taking his bikes (which carry drugs), and is then framed for the murder of a member of a third gang. Quentin Tarantino served as executive producer on ""Hell Ride"" (2008) starring Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen. This is an homage to the motorcycle gang films of the past."
"""Variety"" magazine. Notes Citations Bibliography Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in ""On the Waterfront"" (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in ""The Godfather"" (1972). Brando was an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. He is credited with helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s. He"
"further lasting publicity with Marlon Brando's 1953 motion picture ""The Wild One"", in which he rode a 1950 6T Thunderbird. In the book ""Triumph Motorcycles In America"", there is reproduced a letter from Triumph's importers objecting to the producers as to the use of their machine in this film about rowdy motorcycle gangs. From 1960, the Thunderbird acquired Turner's rear fairing nicknamed the 'bathtub' on account of its shape. This unpopular feature, dropped quickly in the USA market, remained in ever-abbreviated forms for the home market until disappearing altogether for the final year of production, 1966. Before then, in 1963,"
"protection in case of an accident. The footwear's popularity was furthered by its use by celebrities such as Marlon Brando and James Dean in their respective films ""The Wild One"" (1953) and ""Rebel Without a Cause"" (1955). The boots would become heavily associated with the American greasers and bikers who wore them in the 1950s. Overall, they contributed to the ""rebellious"" look of many teenagers of the era. This aesthetic was utilised in the 1961 crime drama ""The Young Savages"", with the footwear being worn by the protagonists, three young urban gang members. From the 1950s through the 1970s engineer"
"Motorcycle Club and the Junior Black Mafia. Merlino was only 32 years old, a young age for any Mafia member, let alone a leader of a Mafia family. Merlino and his allies were all young and unexperienced in running a criminal organization of such magnitude. They were also flashy, violent and loved the limelight. Merlino was often spotted by reporters and cameramen on the streets of South Philadelphia followed by a large entourage. Merlino's high-profile brought a lot of attention from the press and law enforcement. The crime family itself was unstable, with things poorly managed by Merlino's crew whose"
"Motorcycle Gang (1994 film) Motorcycle Gang originally aired on the cable television network Showtime on August 5, 1994, as part of the anthology series ""Rebel Highway"". As with other films in the series, its name is taken from a 1950s B-movie but its plot bears no resemblance to that film. The film was directed by John Milius, who considers it one of his favorites. Army veteran Cal Morris (Gerald McRaney) and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a motorcycle gang consisting of Jake (Jake Busey), Crab, Volker, and Kincaid. Their target is"
"played ""Mouse"" in the film, advertised Triumph motorcycles in the 1960s when he was a famous TV sports announcer. , the manufacturers were publicly identifying Brando as a celebrity who had helped to ""cement the Triumph legend"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The persona of Johnny as portrayed by Brando became an influential image in the 1950s. His character wears long sideburns, a Perfecto-style motorcycle jacket and a tilted cap; he rides a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T. His haircut helped to inspire a craze for sideburns, followed by James Dean and Elvis Presley, among"
"Henry Fonda's ""Mister Roberts"" on Broadway, and later toured with the play for 14 months. He made his screen debut playing the quartermaster in ""Okinawa"" (1952). Moore appeared in guest and supporting roles in a number of movies and television shows, including ""My Little Margie"" in 1952, as Dillard Crumbly, an efficiency expert fresh out of Efficiency College, ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", where he hosted ""What I Want to Be"" segments as the Roving Reporter. He had a small role as a member of Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film ""The Wild One"", and a similar bit part"
"""I grew up racing Motocross, off-road bikes. It's very dangerous. I quit when I was 17, after a good friend broke his back. I still have a bike. For the movie, I slicked back my hair like they did in the '50s, wore sunglasses and rode a Harley Davidson. This was definitely a thrilling experience."" The film was the third in the series to be screened, after ""Roadracers"" and ""Confessions of a Sorority Girl"". Motorcycle Gang (1994 film) Motorcycle Gang originally aired on the cable television network Showtime on August 5, 1994, as part of the anthology series ""Rebel Highway""."
"motorcycle. In the late 1940s a new design was introduced - the 613. It was nicknamed ""the One Star"" because it had a star on each shoulder epaulette. In the early 1950s another version of the jacket was introduced - the 618. The 618 had no stars on the shoulder epaulettes. Stores that carried the jackets often had problems with people stealing the stars of the 613 so the 618 became more commercially viable. Marlon Brando wore a 618 in the movie The Wild One (1953), the stars on his jacket were not original but added to the jacket. There"
"Munsters"", ""The Untouchables"", and many others. He directed one episode of ""T.H.E. Cat"". Freed appeared as a racist club owner in ""No Way Out"" (1950), Private Slattery in ""Halls of Montezuma"" (1951), the Police Chief in ""Invaders From Mars"" (1953), Sgt. Boulanger in ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), the hangman in ""Hang 'Em High"" (1968), Max's father in ""Wild in the Streets"" (1968), as Chief of Detectives in ""Madigan"" (1968), a homosexual prison guard in ""There Was a Crooked Man..."" (1970) and Bernard's father in ""Billy Jack"" (1971) in which he got ""whumped"" on the side of the face by Billy"
"the hipster and beat generation subculture. In 1947, Jack Kerouac made an epic journey across America, which he would later describe in his novel, ""On the Road"". In the same year, there was an incident involving a motorcycle gang at Hollister, California, and ""Harper's Magazine"", published a story about it. In 1948, the Hells Angels formed in Fontana, California. The Hells Angels began as a motorcycle club looking for excitement in the dull times after the end of the war and became notorious as time passed. Motorcycle gangs in general began to hit the headlines. In 1953, the film, ""The"
"Loveless"", his first role as a leading man. The film was co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery and paid homage to 1953 film ""The Wild One"", starring Marlon Brando in a similar role. Following a brief appearance in the horror film ""The Hunger"" (1983), Dafoe again played the leader of a biker gang in Walter Hill's 1984 action film ""Streets of Fire"". His character in the film served as the main antagonist, who captures the ex-girlfriend of a mercenary, played by Diane Lane and Michael Paré, respectively. Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" felt there was no great"
"bikes in the series, and are designed for children, smaller riders, as pit bikes, or for recreational fun. The child actor Edward Furlong who plays the young John Connor sits on a towed XR80 in the film , however his stunt double who was of legal age, needed to use the larger XR100 for his shots of physically riding the bike in the film, moreover, the audio tracks of the engines revving were taken from the more distinctive sounding 2-stroke Honda CR80 for dramatic reasons. The XR 50 is a small four-stroke child's entry level motorcycle, produced from 1969 until"
"songs. In 1989, ""On the Waterfront"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play ""D and D"" (""deaf and dumb""), accepting their subservient position, rather than risking the danger and shame of informing. Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is a dockworker whose brother Charley ""the Gent"" (Rod Steiger) is Friendly's right-hand"
"Motorcycle Gang (film) Motorcycle Gang is a 1957 film which is a semi remake of ""Dragstrip Girl"". It was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with ""Sorority Girl"". The film was announced in March 1957. Lance Fuller was going to star. Filming was held up when star John Ashley was drafted into the army. It was shot during two weeks when he was on leave after basic training. The cast also included former Our Gang star Carl Switzer. The ""Los Angeles Times"" called it ""commendably free of unhealthy sensationalism... tells its unpretentious little moral simply enough."" The"
"others. Presley also used Johnny's image as a model for his role in ""Jailhouse Rock"". James Dean bought a Triumph TR5 Trophy motorcycle to mimic Brando's own Triumph Thunderbird 6T motorcycle that he used in the film. One story maintains that The Beatles took their name from the other motorcycle club led by Lee Marvin, the Beetles, as referred to in ""The Beatles Anthology"" (though as aforementioned, the film was banned in Britain until 1967). The Beatles themselves denied that, stating that their inspiration for the name was the group Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The name of American band"
"films and music in both East and West Berlin influenced the rise of a subculture of youth commonly known as Halbstarke (lit. half-strengths). American films of the era like ""The Wild One"" and ""Rebel Without a Cause"", featuring movie stars Marlon Brando and James Dean, respectively, were viewed by the GDR with romanticizing public disobedience and rebellion, as well as encouraging violent crime. Continued occurrences of crime and uprisings by German youths would eventually lead to the decision by SED party officials to begin construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. In memory of the 1953 East German rebellion, West"
"Indian movies inspired by ""On the Waterfront"" Notes Bibliography Further reading On the Waterfront On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by ""Crime on the Waterfront"" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the ""New York Sun"" which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the"
"were created to solely produce films of the fantastique genres. The decade was equally adept at both character and realistic films. The highly noted actors James Stewart, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando were at the peak of their popularity. Stewart, starring in ""Winchester '73"", and Wayne, starring in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy and ""The Searchers"", revitalized the western. Brando mastered versatile roles in films such as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""The Wild One"" (1953), ""Julius Caesar"", ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1955), ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" (1956), and ""Sayonara"" (1957). Director Alfred Hitchcock was at the"
"killer in ""The Lineup"" (1958). His best known performances are as the ineffectual police chief and father of biker Marlon Brando's love interest in the 1953 film ""The Wild One"" and as tougher, no-nonsense cop, this time Brando's antagonist, in the film musical, ""Guys And Dolls"". Keith had a starring role in Douglas Sirk's ""Written on the Wind"". He had roles on television, including a role as Richard Kimble's father in ""The Fugitive"" and lead roles on episodes of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" (""Ten O'Clock Tiger"" & ""Final Escape"") and ""The Twilight Zone"" (""The Masks""), which was his last screen effort,"
"Party Monster (film) Party Monster is a 2003 American factually based biographical drama film directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and starring Macaulay Culkin as the drug-addled ""king of the Club Kids"". The film tells the story of rise and fall of the infamous New York City party promoter Michael Alig. This was Macaulay Culkin's first film in nearly nine years since his starring role in the 1994 film ""Richie Rich"". The film is based on ""Disco Bloodbath"", the memoir of James St. James which details his friendship with Alig, that later fell apart as Alig's drug addiction worsened,"
"several segments about the real life men and stories of the Gangster Squad and Mickey Cohen. Gangster Squad (film) Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action crime film directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Will Beall and starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone and Sean Penn. Set in 1949, the plot is a fictionalized account of the LAPD officers and detectives called the ""Gangster Squad"" who attempt to keep Los Angeles safe from Mickey Cohen and his gang. The film was originally set to be released September 7, 2012, but in the wake of the 2012 Aurora"
"the United States. Early Southern California clubs included the 13 Rebels, the Yellow Jackets and the Orange County Motorcycle Club, which all existed before the founding of the Boozefighters, whose actions during the Hollister riot were fictionalized in the film ""The Wild One"" starring Marlon Brando, and whose formation in 1946 marks the beginning of the ""one percenter"" outlaw motorcycle clubs. They met at a small bar called the 'Crash Inn' in Southern California, and eventually made the owner an honorary member. Many different clubs were represented at the Crash Inn. Clubs that could be found there included The Sharks,"